A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.
-Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008).
and
...the time had passed for novels to be about characters and individuals. ...What counted was creation... (my ellipses)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2257878,00.html
i'd say more, but my copy of The Eraser sits in a box back home, beyond my reach, as yet unread.
and if this was late, my apologies. would it be any comfort to consider that it was almost never?
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